Bucket list as bait

THE end of the summer means the kids are back to school and the football is back with big European trips on the horizon for fans.

- BY LOUIS FEROX

Some of the fixtures take folk off to far-flung places they'd never consider otherwise.

These days, it's a low-budget airline and a wee journey of discovery on the other end.

I remember when the only option for these kinds of trips was a sequence of ferries and buses taking you days to get there.

As anglers the ability to make a hop, skip and a jump across to the continent has opened up all manner of fishing destinations.

If you're lucky enough to be booking a fishing holiday, it's a simple process to get yourself to somewhere that you'd only read about in magazines or see on TV fishing programmes such as Hooked with Paul Young back in the day.